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Friday March 22, 10 AM-4 PM, 820 Barrows Hall

BAY AREA COMPARATIVE URBAN POLITICS WORKSHOP

Sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Global Metropolitan Studies Program

SCHEDULE

9:45 am: Coffee and Check in

10:00-11:15: Lightning Talks

11:30-12:30: Paper Workshops

12:30-1:30: Lunch

1:30-2:45: Research Panel

3:00-4:00: Book Talk

Bay Area Comparative Urban Politics Workshop Friday, March 22, 2019, 10:00am - 4:00pm Social Science Matrix, U.C. Berkeley 820 Barrows Hall (take east elevators to 8th flr. or to 7th flr. and walk up) Sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies Hosted by the Social Science Matrix ***** 9:45 am: Coffee and Check in 10:00-11:15am: Lightning Talks

1. Matthew Stenberg (PhD Candidate, Berkeley), “The Subnational Imposition of a Single-Party Dominant Regime: Hungarian Local Elections in National Context”

2. David Gordon (Assistant Professor, Santa Cruz), “Vectors of

Accountability in Global Urban Climate Governance”

3. Mashail Malik (PhD Candidate, Stanford), “Mode of Migration and Urban Political Expectations: Comparing the Pashtuns and the Muhajirs in Karachi”

4. Christopher Herring (PhD Candidate, Berkeley), “Therapeutic Penal

Populism: Criminalizing Homelessness in the Progressive City”

5. Clayton Nall (Assistant Professor, Stanford), “Paths of Recruitment: Rational Social Prospecting in Petition Canvassing”

6. Esther Song (PhD Candidate, Stanford), “Social Service Contracting and

Political Trust in Authoritarian Context: Evidence from Survey in Shanghai”

7. Kyle Galindez (PhD Candidate, UC Santa Cruz), “Urbanization and

Nature on a Militarized Island: Guam, 1963 to the Present”

8. Makoto Fukumoto (PhD Candidate, Berkeley), “Migration and Political Change”

9. Valerie Wirtschafter (PhD Candidate, UCLA), “Can Preventive Policing

Alter Patterns Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?”

11:30-12:30 Paper Workshop *No presentations; papers distributed in advance 1. Carl Gustafson (PhD Candidate, Stanford), “Club Goods and Voter Turnout

in Municipal Elections”

Discussant: Jeffrey Paller (Assistant Professor, USF) 2. Ajar Chekirova (PhD Candidate, USF), “Claiming Rights to Post-Soviet City:

Institutional Barriers and Informal Methods at Street-Level Bureaucracies”

Discussant: Alison Post (Associate Professor, Berkeley)

12:30-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:45 Research Panel Demanding rights and services in cities across the world 1. Lana Salman (PhD Candidate, Berkeley) “Decentering Politics: Peripheral

Urbanization and the Remaking of Class Relations in Tunisia” 2. Tanu Kumar (PhD Candidate, Berkeley), “How Welfare Programs Can

Increase Participation in Local Politics: the Effects of Affordable Housing in Mumbai”

3. Eduardo Marques (Professor, U Sao Paulo), “The Governance and Actors of

Urban Policies in São Paulo” 4. Shelby Grossman (Asst. Professor, U of Memphis), “The Collusion Dilemma:

Theory with Evidence from Informal Markets in Lagos, Nigeria” (with Alisha Holland)

3:00-4:00 Book Talk Jessica Trounstine (Associate Professor, U.C. Merced) Segregation by Design: Politics and Inequality in American Cities (2018) Discussants: Sarah Anzia (Associate Professor, Berkeley) and Eleonora Pasotti (Associate Professor, Santa Cruz)